What is the difference between a deer and an antelope?
First ignore Robert P. He is talking rubbish. There are many species of northern hemisphere antelope and several species of southern hemipshere deer. The major difefrence between deer an antelope is the horns. Antelope horns have a core of solid bone that grows out of the skull. Because of that bony core antelope horns are much stronger and they stay attached all the time. In antelope species both males and females have horns. Deer horns don’t have a bone core. They are just a protein matrix with some calcium. That makes deer horn much weaker than antelope horns. It also means that deer shed their horns every year in autumn and regrow them again in spring. In deer species usually only the malkes have horns. The females never grow horns. (Reindeer are one notable exception). So the simplest way to difefrentiate der and antelope is: Deer have light, boneless horns and grow a new set of horns at the beginning of every year, and drop their horns at the end of the year. Usually only males h
